Monika Viktorova

Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

Ovens! My new apartment oven has dials and buttons instead of a smooth interface

Some dumbass: "what’s stopping russia from doing a targeted operation to go steal zelensky in a few weeks now?"

Bunch of you need to get your dumbass boy. Blue checkmarks not beating the allegations.

N.B. The answer is "nothing" because they've already tried it. They literally tried to *right at the start of the war* and their paratroopers got turned into fucking mulch.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Minor thing given what's going on in the world right now, but I've just discovered that TurnitIn, the product many universities use for grading & plagiarism detection, offers students an 'AI-powered writing tool' as well as AI detection tools for instructors. They're selling weapons to both sides.

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.

I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

tweet screenshot: a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

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Amazing record for the FIFA

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

88% of Canadians want a wealth tax. Funny how that public concern never gets a response.

The End and the beginning After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won't pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Someone has to trudge through sludge and ashes, through the sofa springs, the shards of glass, the bloody rags. Someone has to lug the post to prop the wall, someone has to glaze the window, set the door in its frame. No sound bites, no photo opportunities, and it takes years. All the cameras have gone to other wars. The bridges need to be rebuilt, the railroad stations, too. Shirtsleeves will be rolled to shreds. 286 Someone, broom in hand, still remembers how it was. Someone else listens, nodding his unshattered head. But others are bound to be bustling nearby who'll find all that a little boring. From time to time someone still must dig up a rusted argument from underneath a bush and haul it off to the dump. Those who knew what this was all about must make way for those who know little. And less than that. And at last nothing less than nothing. Someone has to lie there in the grass that covers up the causes and effects with a cornstalk in his teeth, gawking at clouds.

After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.

Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.

-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war

Canada finally reacts, through our foreign affairs minister (not our prime minister).

Really, embarrassingly timid statement when you consider what just happened.

Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons” David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.

NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/

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Back in 2016 when Jezebel’s staff writers were being forced to moderate their own article comment sections and were flooded with r*pe gifs, I predicted this would get much worse with the personalization possible from deep fakes

Watching your own likeness be abused is horrifying

Very sad to read that Janet Fish has passed away. Her work is gorgeous and bright and in these heady times, art that embodies joy is so necessary

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CNN commentator just now: "You have to congratulate the administration on keeping this quiet".

The news media is a huge contributor to the rise of unlawful tyranny.

30 Rock "What a week" meme: "What a year, huh?" "Lemon, it's January 3rd."

lol who has ever in the history of the planet thought to themselves “I need to litsen to my podcasts through the fridge”

This is your energy for 2026

*via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

So much of any year is flammable

Naomi Shihab Nye, "Burning the Old Year"
#everynightapoem

From the UXDesign community on Reddit: PSA for Figma Admins: This AI setting is quietly enabled by default Explore this post and more from the UXDesign community

As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work.

For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?

Or have a friend do it!

Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.

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We are able to tax unrealized increases in value when it comes to property like homes, and absolutely nothing else, says hundred millionaire venture capitalist

AI-made videos using attractive young women promote Poland's EU exit They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinformation and propaganda in Poland persist.

AI-made videos using attractive young women promote Poland's EU exit